Editor’s Choice: Best Hotels Cesky Krumlov Has To Offer Cesky Krumlov is after Prague the second most visited city in the Czech Republic, but sadly, most people only stay for the day.

Cesky Krumlov’s medieval fortress has a fairy-tale quality that Disneyland marketing teams can only dream of, and its Renaissance pastel-tinted tower acts as a particular beacon for visitors.

The Vltava River cuts through Cesky Krumlov, making it easy to understand why the area has been inhabited since the Older Stone Age (that's 70,000 - 50,000 B.C.).

See all 31 stories. By the time we reached Cesky Krumlov, we were used to sleeping rough. We’d slept at Frankfurt station when we’d accidentally found ourselves in Germany rather than Luxembourg.

Where As you would expect, South Bohemia is in Czechia’s south, home to Cesky Krumlov and Ceske Budejovice, about a two-hour drive south of the capital Prague.